Engineering Libraries

American Society for Engineering Education

Nancy Schiller, Editor March 1994 Science & Engineering Library, SUNY-Buffalo 7 16-645-2946 Fax: 716-645-37 10 [email protected]

Message From the Chair

This year I have received an inquiry from one publisher, Please let me know your opinions of ELD making its Professional Publications, which publishes all those mailing list available to publishers of science and professional exam books and other career-oriented engineering materials. guides, handbooks, and manuals. Professional Publications is a relatively small publisher, with sixty Cecilia Mullen some publications currently in print. Their inquiry was to ELD Chair ask for our EL0 mailing list. I did check with ASEE San Jose State University Headquarters, and their policy on this matter is that any One Washington Square distribution of mailing lists must first meet with Division San Jose, CA 951 92-0028 approval. With that approval, ASEE will distribute the 408-924-2813 mailing list as prescribed by the Division. Only ASEE can E-mail: mullen@sjsuvml .sjsu.edu distribute mailing lists and they assess the charges. Their charges are quite reasonable, however. Costs for each set of labels are based on a setup fee of $30.00 And a Reminder from the Editor plus $.07 per label. ELD membership is approximately 150 this year. For a division of 150 members, ASEE Just a reminder that April 15, 1994, is the deadline for would charge $40.50. This low cost (whether inten- submissions to the May issue of the ELD Newsletter. tional or not) allows for a Division to also profit from the Like last year, we will be including in the May issue all transaction if they should stipulate that a donation of a annual ELD officer and committee chair reports so that specified amount needs to be made to the Division. In they are available to ELD members in advance of the this case, ASEE would deposit that prescribed amount annual business meeting at the conference in into the Division's BASS account. in June.

ELD does not have big money-making projects to --Nancy Schiller, ELD Newsletter Editor replenish our bank account, so it is important to consider new ways to keep our account moving in a positive Also in This Issue ... direction. With the current procedure for producing our Literature Guide series, ELD collects 10% of the profits. ELD-Quarterly Committee Reports ...... 2 Our publications sales and annual dues are the only New Member Bios ...... 2 positive cash flows for our Division. It would be nice to Edmonton Program Needs You ...... 3 have an additional source of funding such as the mailing Conference Site Attractions ...... 3 labels could produce. Again, not a big money-maker but, Cornell Engineering Library Flood ...... 5 for example, if ELD were to request a donation of People & Places ...... 6 $100.00 for each mailing list sent out to a publisher, Request for Help ...... 7 ELD could enjoy some monetary benefit and members ELD Membership Directory Updates ...... 8 would benefit by a publisher's mailing. Job Opportunities ...... 9 Page 2 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter March 1994 -

ENGINEERING LIBRARIES DIVISION from Australia, four from Spain, three each from Brazil and Great Britain, two from the Netherlands, and one Quarterly Committee Reports each from Belgium, Egypt, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and Panama. Much credit goes to all the people who play big roles (behind the scenes) in the work that is done to Publications Committee Report stay on top of membership issues--and to Felicia ASEE has provided sales figures for the recent ELD Guglielmi, at ASEE HQ, who is doing a great job of Literature Guides through December 31, 1993. The hanging in there with us while we do the best we can to totals are as follows: both "groww our membership figures and strive to keep track of all you fine ELD folks! As always, please Title Number Sold address any membership status questions and send along any recruitment "leads" you might have to me. Advanced Ceramics 16 My e-mail address is [email protected].

Artificial lntelliaence 47 --Glee Willis, Membership Committee Chair New Member Bios Telecommunications 19 This issue of the Newsletter features several new Union List 175 members from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area who we are pleased to welcome to the Division. Sales thus far will generate about $300 for ELD's BASS account. The above-listed publications have been Aimee DeChambeau has a BS in Education, a Library advertised on listservs including ELDNET, PAMNET, BI-L, Science certification K-12 from Clarion University, and and LibRef-L. There was also a printed ad in the an MLS with a specialty in Agricultural lnformation from November 1993 issue of Sci-Tech News, page 37. the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently completing an Advanced Studies Certificate in Automation Design at --Tom Conkling, Publications Committee Chair Pitt while working part-time as a Science Reference Librarian in the Carnegie Public Library's Science and Membership Committee Report Technology Department. Prior to this, Aimee worked as Interesting membership tidbits: 31 % of ELDNET-L a Science lnformation Specialist at the Engineering and subscribers are members of ELD (93 of the 298, as of Science Library at Carnegie Mellon University. Aimee is February 16, 1994). The ELD roster now numbers 150 interested in how library users interact with online members. Approximately 10 more ASEE members catalog interfaces. haven't yet paid their ELD divisional dues for this year, so the actual ELD membership count is probably 160. David Peck is a Science lnformation Specialist at the This is wonderful news--we are definitely gaining Engineering and Science Library of Carnegie Mellon strength in numbers! I have sent out a total of 153 University, where he provides reference services and is recruitment packets since the annual conference in responsible for collection development/departmental Urbana--and continue to do so at the customary rate of liaison activities for Chemical Engineering, Mechanical 5 + per week (mostly to new subscribers to ELDNET-L). Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. Almost 60% of all ELD members are also members of David also supervises the CMU Libraries' Courier services ELDNET-L, and Mel DeSart, ELDNET-L editor, and I are as well as ILL for the Engineering and Science Library, working on upping that percentage. Meanwhile, both and helps in database testing. He is currently involved the ELD roster and the ELDNET-L subscribership manifest in testing and development of CMU's version of the marvelous "international" flavors to them. ELD TULIPIElsevier project. David received his MLS from membership includes folks from , as well as Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He has a BS in people from Finland, France, Israel, Korea, Peru, and chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Saudi Arabia. ELDNET-L subscribership includes 18 PhD in organic chemistry from the University of electronic mail addresses from Canadian domains, 10 Minnesota. His pre-MLS science research experience includes a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh and March 1994 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter page--3 industrial chemical research at Allied SignaLDavid is its beginning as the Hudson Bay Fur Trading Post of interested in improving the delivery of information to the 1846. The park sprawls over 158 acres in the North scientific community, the application of intellectual Saskatchewan river valley and contains a full-scale property laws to libraries and electronic information, and replica of as it was in 1846. The, picnic the preservation/use of CD-ROMs. is a must event for all conference attendees!

Terry Wittig received her MLS from the University of The other major social event for ELD members is our Pittsburgh. For the past four years she has worked at annual dinner which is held on Tuesday evening. It the Engineering and Science Library at Carnegie Mellon follows our Division's annual business meeting (to which University, where she serves as the liaison for the all ELD members are invited), and is a great way to relax Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical and Computer after a full day of activity. This year's dinner will be held Engineering Departments. Terry is also the Collections in a local Edmonton restaurant which promises to provide Coordinator for the CMU Science Libraries. Prior to us with a further glimpse of local color and hospitality. joining CMU, Terry worked in the Rotch Library of Please make sure to attend! Architecture and Urban Planning at MIT. Terry is active in the Science and Technology Section of the In the May issue of the newsletter I will be providing the Association of College and Research Libraries. last-minute details on speakers and presentations for the Edmonton program. But don't wait until then to register! --compiled by Glee Willis, Membership Committee Chair Register by April 1 st and be eligible for an all-expenses- paid trip to the conference, including a two-night, Edmonton Program three-day vacation at the scenic Jasper Park Lodge. Needs You --Steve Gass, ELD Program Chair

As I write this update on ELD's program for the 1994 Conference Site: Edmonton conference, I have just received the It Really is the Frozen North! preliminary conference schedule from ASEE. I believe that ELD has put together an exciting program which will benefit all who can attend. The December Newsletter Area Attractions/Places of Interest provided a listing of all our activities. The program has Well, it is minus 31.5 degrees Celsius this morning, so it not changed since then. We will be offering exciting is hard to think about "attractions" in Edmonton, even programs on document delivery, TULIP (Elsevier's for us die-hard Edmontonians. initiative to provide their materials science journals online), the National Engineering Education Delivery Parks, etc. System (NEEDS), the Internet, and the work of the ELD Edmonton has a wonderful river valley for walking, Accreditation and Standards Committee in developing running, cycling, and cross-country skiing. Of course, both a program for gathering comparable library statistics cross-country skiing won't be an option in June. Trails and a checklist for evaluating library services. In take you 35 or more kilometres. On weekends, there are addition, we will be having our annual get-togetherhap ice cream vendors on the trails, but mostly you need to session to kick-off the formal programs, followed by an pack your own lunch or snacks. afternoon poster session where over 10 different presenters will be sharing their work. The ~uttart-consistsof four pyramids: tropical, arid, As anyone who has attended the annual conference in temperate, and show. The Show Pavilion changes the past knows, the social aspect of the conference can monthly, while the others are permanent exhibits. There be just as worthwhile as the more formal parts. The is also a small gift shop and coffee area. The annual society-wide picnic on Sunday is the informal conservatory is located at 98th Avenue and 96A Street beginning of the conference. This year's picnic will be at the east end of the James MacDonald Bridge. Open held at , a living history museum that daily 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Entrance fee charged. Phone: recreates the atmosphere of the city of Edmonton from (403) 428-5226. = Page 4 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter March 1994

Museums Entrance fee charged, except Thursday evenings. Phone: (430) 422-6223. Fort Edmonton Park The opening picnic is here. Located along the river bank, four time periods in Edmonton's history are depicted: The new city hall opened about two years ago and is 1846 Hudson's Bay Company fort, 1885 settlement, quite fun to walk through. Free. Located at 1 Sir 1905 city, and 1920 city. Interpreters are costumed and Winston Churchill Square. various activities are demonstrated, including bread baking, Includes steam locomotive and streetcar rides. Sir Winston Churchill Square Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Entrance fee charged. Sir Winston Churchill Square is at the east end of the Phone: (403) 428-2992. shopping area and has City Hall on one side and Hudson's Bay Store and the on Edmonton Space and Science Centre the other sides. The Edmonton Art Gallery is There is a star theatre and an IMAX theatre here along kiddie-corner. Sir Winston Churchill Square is one of with exhibits, models, and games. Located at 142 several sites for the Jazz City Festival which runs late Street and 112 Avenue in Coronation Park, near June every year. Westmount Shopping Centre. The Observatory is open clear afternoons and evenings 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 9 Hanging Out in p.m. to midnight. The Centre is open 10 a.m. to 10 Whyte or 82 Avenue from 105 Street to 103 Street is p.m. daily; till midnight on Friday and Saturday. the core of Old Strathcona. Lots of coffee shops and Entrance fee charged. Phone: (403) 451 -7722. gift shops.

Provincial Museum and Archives of Farmers' Market Four main galleries reflect Alberta's heritage, including The market is the biggest farmers' market in Edmonton. dioramas. Located at 12845-102 Avenue, just west of It is open Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and downtown. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Entrance Tuesdays from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the summer. The fee charged. Phone: (403) 427-1 786. market is located in the very unpretentious old bus barns at 83 Avenue and 103 Street. Glee Willis alerted you in AGT Vista 33 View Gallery and Museum December on ELDNET-L of the smells and tastes at the This tower offers a panoramic view of the city along market. We'll work on the Saskatoon Pie for Paige with a telecommunications museum. Open 10 a.m. to 8 Gibbs, but the snow will have to melt very soon for p.m. daily, except Sundays, when the museum is open Saskatoons to be in season. from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Entrance fee charged. Phone: (403) 493-3333. Princess Theatre Old Strathcona is also home to the Princess Theatre, a Alberta Legislature Building repertory theatre also featuring first run and foreign Edmonton is the provincial capital and thus the seat of films. June is the Princess Film Festival. Located at the Legislature. The Alberta Legislature Building is a 10337-82 Avenue. For movie info, call 433-5785. grand domed building with a carillon in the dome and a reflecting pond outside. It is situated on the river bank Old Strathcona Model and Toy Museum and has lovely gardens. Located at 97 Avenue and 109 The Old Strathcona Model and Toy Museum is located at Street. Tours Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; 8603-104 Street. It is open Wednesday-Friday from 12 Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free. Phone: p.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and (403) 427-7362. Sunday and holidays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Donations at the door. Phone: (403) 433-451 2. Edmonton Art Gallery A small but interesting gallery with a gift shop. Edmonton Telephone Historical Information Centre Emphasizes modern Canadian works and the history of The Edmonton Telephone Historical lnformation Centre Canadian art. Located at 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, at 10437-083 Avenue gives the history of tele- just east of the downtown shopping area. Open daily communications in Edmonton. Open Monday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday and Friday till 8 p.m. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Entrance fee charged. Phone: (403) 441 -2077. --

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Rutherford House Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village This house was the home of the first premier of Alberta. Located 30 miles east of town, this open-air museum It was completed in 1911 and marks the end of the focuses on the mass immigration of Ukrainian farmers pioneer style in Edmonton. Located at 11153 from 1892 to 1930. The site includes a town, a Saskatchewan Drive, on the University campus. Open farmstead, and a rural community. Costumed guides daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Donations. Phone: (403) role-play the daily routine of settlers. Open daily 10 a.m. 427-2022. to 6 p.m. Entrance fee charged, except Tuesdays. Phone: (403) 662-3640. Valley Zoo The medium-sized Valley Zoo is located in west Reynold's Museum Edmonton at Buena Vista Road and 1344 Street. Open Reynold's Museum in Wetaskiwin Wetaskiwin is about daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entrance fee charged. Phone: one hour south of Edmonton. The museum showcases (403) 483-551 1. antique cars, trucks, fire engines, tractors, and many other bits of history. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Shopping Entrance fee charged. Phone: (403) 352-6201. at 87 Avenue and 170 Street is a , but don't skip it just because you don't Next Issue: Food and Drink and Entertainment want to shop. There's lots more at West Edmonton Mall, including an amusement park. The mall contains --Margo Young, Science & Technology Librarian, more than 800 stores and 19 movie theatres. It also , Edmonton includes Fantasyland, the world's largest indoor amusement park with a roller coaster, a submarine, the Drop of Doom, to name but a few of its attractions. The Proof of Citizenship Required Ice Palace is an indoor skating rink (hockey size). You for Conference Attendees can rent skates and go ice skating here. There is also As you make your plans for the upcoming ASEE Annual miniature golf and a Water Park with a beach, water Conference in Edmonton, please note that anyone slides, and wave pool. entering Canada for business or pleasure purposes must carry identification which proves that they are a legal Old Strathcona is a browser's and window shopper's resident of the United States. A driver's license is not dream on a pleasant day. sufficient. Downtown has several shopping centres joined together All visitors to Canada must show proof of citizenship. by overhead walkways: Edmonton Centre, Eaton Centre, Documents such as a passport, birth certificate, or voter and Manulife I and II. Just a few steps away is the registration card and a picture ID are necessary to enter Boardwalk Mall. Included in Manulife is the Alberta Craft Canada. Citizens of countries other than the United Gallery for Fine Crafts and Art. Also fun is Artworks, at States should check with the Canadian embassy or the northwest corner of Edmonton Centre. Places to eat nearest consulate before their departure. include Zenari's, a gourmet kitchen shop, and Restaurant Select. Cornell Engineering Out of Town Library Flood Devonian Botanic Garden Wednesday evening, January 19, 1994. It was You need a car to get to the Devonian Botanic Garden, intersession and we had just closed the library. Four of but it is a retreat from the daily busy world with its us were winding down from a busy day when Celeste Kurimoto Japanese Gardens. Indigenous and Alpine Roach, Electronic Resources Librarian, said "I hear water vegetation cover another 45 acres of the 90-acre total. running!" Water was indeed gushing out of the ceiling The botanic gardens are located about 14 kilometres in Stack 1 of the library. John Saylor, Director of the southwest of Edmonton. Open daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Engineering Library, called Cornell Police to report that and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings till 9 p.m. we had a serious building emergency and then contacted Entrance fee charged. Phone: (403) 987-3054. John Dean, Director, Cornell University Library Page 6 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter March -1994

Preservation & Conservation, for assistance. We Rochester, and Syracuse University. Under this grant received a prompt response from the Cornell Building the Cornell Library purchased and installed a freezer for Facilities staff, who located the problem and shut the the storage of water-damaged materials. Supplies useful water off. When the plumber arrived, he remarked that for dealing with a major disaster were purchased for they knew they had a problem because the water each of the participating institutions, and Cornell hosted pressure had dropped all over campus. A valve had a two-day disaster simulation program. failed because of the extreme cold and a pipe burst. The custodial staff braved the below zero weather and Each library at Cornell has a Disaster Liaison and an brought their water vacuum cleaners from other buildings Emergency Supplies Box, and training sessions have to clean up. been held. The Disaster Response Plan was prepared by the Disaster Subcommittee of the Security and Library During the "running water" stage we covered ranges of Safety Working Group of the Public Services Executive book shelves on stacks 1, 2, and 3 with sheets of plastic Committee, Cornell University Library. Contact either from our Emergency Supplies Box, and then moved John Saylor (jmsl @cornell.edu) or myself (Mary volumes from the shelves to desks further away from the Patterson, Associate Reference Librarian, Engineering running water. John Dean and Peter Verheyen, Book Library, Cornell University, [email protected], Conservator, began to bring out the wettest volumes as telephone: (607) 255-3925, fax: (607) 255-9606) soon as the plumber got the water shut off. We had if you want further information about the Safety and spread newspapers on the large tables in the Reference Security Manual or the Disaster Response Plan. reading room and the wet volumes were taken there to be sorted and treated by the five other Conservation staff members who responded to the emergency call and People & Places returned to campus to help. The volumes were interleaved with paper towels to help wick out the Three ELD members presented papers at the 1992 SAE moisture, and fans were set up to keep the air moving International Congress and Exposition early this March. gently to permit slow evaporation. The session, entitled "The lnformation Edge: Resources for Competing Globally," covered a wide range of About 450 pieces got wet, but as a result of the speedy information-related topics. University of Notre Dame response and expen handling by the Conservation staff, Engineering Librarian Sheila Curl's paper, "A Tour of the only six unbound journal issues sustained severe Internet: The lnformation Superhighway," addressed the damage. A few volumes are still drying, but we were fast-changing Internet story. Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue able to be open for business when classes began on University, spoke on "Navigating the Government Maze: January 24th. The Cornell University Library's Disaster A Guide to Federal Information,' a subject of special Response Plan worked! relevance to the automotive industry. Bob Schwarzwalder, University of Michigan, covered In case you were wondering how the Disaster Response collaborative possibilities in his presentation, "Locating Plan works, the Cornell University Library has procedures Technology Transfer Opportunities." Other speakers for medical, building and property, and security and included Jim Berardone, manager of SAE's Electronic personal safety emergencies, which are disseminated in Publishing Department, and Marydee Ojala, lnformation the form of a Safety and Security Manual. The focus of Consultant and President of Marydee Ojala & Associates. this manual is twofold: Prevention and Preparation. A subsection, the Disaster Response Plan, outlines the Beth Brin, Science-Engineering Librarian, University of procedures library staff should follow when an event, Arizona, gave two presentations at the Arizona State such as the above-mentioned Engineering Library flood, Library Annual Conference, December 2-3, 1994. occurs. "Designing a Training Program for a Dynamic Online Library System," a contributed paper presented with two Part of this came about in 1989/90, when the Cornell colleagues, covered the staff training program for the UA University Library Conservation Department administered Library's online system, SABIO, and the use of the a New York State Coordinated Preservation Grant to developed scripts for training in other settings. "Rodents develop a Regional Emergency Mutual Response Team and Comic Book Characters: Navigating the lnternet for the central region of the state. The members include with GOPHER, Veronica, and ARCHIE," presented with Binghamton University, Cornell University, University of March 1994 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter - a colleague, included a description of the named tools, session in Edmonton on planning, designing, and as well as online demonstrations. implementing such a BI program.

Vladimir Borovansky, Noble Science & Engineering John Forys, Engineering Librarian at the University of Library, Arizona State University, was in an automobile lowa, has developed four- to six-page user handouts for accident at the end of December. He broke a number of the following CD-ROM products: Computer Select, bones and had to spend a week in the hospital. Two Environmental Periodicals Bibliography, ICIDiscrete other people were injured in the accident but not Parameter Database, INSPEC, Science Citation Index, seriously. Vladimir is back at work and reports that he U.S. Patentsearch, Vendor Master Directory & Vendor expects to be able to resume running soon. Catalogs, and Worldwide Standards Index. If you would like to receive a copy of any of these, contact John at 'Rristy Hightower is pleased to announce that the Engineering Library, Room 2100, Engineering iewlett-Packard has awarded the University of California Building, University of lowa, lowa City, lowa 52242, or at San Diego a grant of equipment valued at $181,437 on e-mail at [email protected]. to be used to equip the Science & Engineering Library with a state-of-the-art Electronic Information Center. Dennis Norlin, South Dakota School of Mines and The equipment, awarded through HP's University Grants Technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of hogram, consists of an HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 Coleen Coble as User Services Librarian. Coleen will Model 735 configured as a server, twenty HP ENVIZEX provide database searching support for SDSM&T faculty high performance multimedia X terminals for student and students and for area businesses and industries. use, and two networked postscript printers (an HP SDSM&T1s Devereaux Library has agreed to become a Laserjet 4 Si MX, and an HP 1200ClPS color printer). Patent and Trademark Depository Library, the first PTDL The focus of the Center will be to teach engineering in the state of South Dakota. PTDL status will enable students the skills they need to take full advantage of the library to provide full-service patent searching and the multiplicity of electronic information sources now support and will supplement the library's growing available to them both locally and via the Internet. Depository Library collection (currently more than 55% Among other things, the Center plans to use the of all GPO documents). hypertext features of NCSA's Mosaic to integrate lnternet use into students' academic course assignments. Many individuals contributed to the Request for Help: success of the grant proposal, in particular, Founding What Place Should the lnternet Have in a Dean of Engineering, Lea Rudee, Director of Engineering Textbook Purporting to Help Engineers and Computing, Greg Hidley, and Professors Kenneth Engineering Students Make Effective Use of Vecchio and Rik Belew. Index and Abstract Journals? Edward Wladas, Santa Clara University, has been appointed Engineering Librarian at Princeton Since I retired in June 1992, 1 have been thinking1 University effective July 1, 1994. In this capacity, he planningltrying to write a textbook that would help will oversee all aspects of the administration and engineers and engineering students, especially R & D operation of the Engineering Library. engineers and thesis candidates, identify and effectively use indexes and abstracts to locate the information they Tom DePetro, Wichita State University, is currently in his need. Indexes and abstracts must, in my opinion, be third year of presenting a one and a half-hour training considered in their three major formats, namely, paper, session to students and others on how to search the CD-ROM, and online databases. The three formats are DIALOG OnDisc CD-ROM version of COMPENDEX'PLUS. generally not equivalent in time or information coverage; The session is offered three or four times each semester all three must be used to some extent. At the same and teaches both menu and command searching time, the mix of usage between the three formats will techniques with the best method being "combined necessarily differ among users due to their particular searching" using both. The sessions are presented in the time, money, and accessibility constraints. library's classroom with a screen projection of the PC screen. They conclude at the CD-ROM workstation with This project is an outgrowth of a one-credit course and an orientation to it. Tom will be presenting a poster text (collection of hand-outs) I developed and taught for Page 8 - Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter March 1994 about eight years. I would be very grateful for your 21 5 N. Randall Way comments and suggestions concerning the possible place Madison, WI 53706 of the Internet in this planned textbook. 608-262-3836 fax: 608-262-4739 Hugh Franklin e-mail: [email protected] 7018 12th Avenue NE Seattle, WA 981 15 Helen M. Shuster telephone: (206) 525-3560 Head Librarian (best time to call is 6 to 7 a.m. PST) Worcester Polytechnic lnstitute George C. Gordon Library 100 Institute Rd. ELD Directory Worcester, MA 01609 508-83 1-5808 Updates and Corrections e-mail: [email protected]

The following information updates and cumulates CORRECTIONS: changes and corrections to the 1993/94 ELD Membership Directory. Leonard J. Bohmann e-mail: [email protected] ADDITIONS: John W. Forys, Jr. Robert S. Allen e-mail: [email protected] Assistant Professor, Library Science Purdue University Anders Hagstrom 1396 Physics Bldg. Library correct address should read: West Lafayette, IN 47907-1396 Dipoli 31 7-494-2858 FIN-021 50 Espoo fax: 3 17-494-0706 Finland e-mail: [email protected] Susan D. Herring Bill Bartenbach e-mail: [email protected] Director of Library Relations Engineering Information, Inc. Roy D. Joseph Castle Point on the Hudson 61 5-393-7457 Hoboken, NJ 07030 fax: 61 5-393-751 8 201 -21 6-8513 fax: 201 -2 16-8532 William G. Rowe e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]

David R. Peck Glee Willis Science Information Specialist fax: 702-784-6945 Carnegie Mellon University e-mail: [email protected] Engineering and Science Library Wean Hall Margo Young Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 correct postal code is 41 2-268-7213 Edmonton T6G 2J8 e-mail: dp3t + @andrew.cmu.edu Send any additional corrections to the ELD Membership Carolyn R. Shaffer Directory to: Jim Van Fleet, ELD Membership Directory Engineering Librarian Editor, Bertrand Library, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, University of Wisconsin--Madison PA 17837, telephone: (717) 524-3235, e-mail: Kurt F. Wendt Library [email protected]. -

March 1994 - Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter Page 9

Benefits: Salary $25,000 for a 12-month appointment. Job Opportunities Benefits include a percentage payment of employee's Social Security, choice of retirement and medical programs, no state or local income taxes. State Head, Engineering Library, Pittsburgh vacation, holiday package. The University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, is seeking a highly-motivated individual to be responsible Position open immediately. Committee will begin for the operation and maintenance of the Bevier screening applicants March 1st and continue until Engineering Library including development of the position is filled. Send letter of application addressing collections and the provision of library services in this qualifications with resume and names of references to: area. Responsibilities include planning and administering Thomas H. Kreneck, Interim Director, Library, TAMU-CC, budgets, supervising staff (1 FCT professional, 3 F/T 6300 Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, TX 78412. support staff) and participating in University and professional activities. Reports to the Head, Science Director of Libraries, Rensselaer, New York Libraries Cluster. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute invites applications and nominations for the position of Director of Libraries. The Qualifications: ALA-accredited MLS (or recognized Director of Libraries reports to the Dean of Computing & equivalent) required as well as excellent oral and written lnformation Technology and is responsible for providing communication skills. Experience in a science library or overall leadership for library-related activities. The management of a library and an educational background Rensselaer Libraries emphasize the innovative use of in the sciences preferred. electronic information technologies and are committed to providing high quality information access and information Salary: Rank and salary commensurate with experience instruction to the campus community. The Director of and qualifications. Minimum $35,000. Libraries is also a member of the Computing & lnformation Technology management team along with Submit letter of application and current resume with the Directors of lnformation Technology Services and names of three references to: William Gentz, Personnel Administrative lnformation Services. RPI is a private Librarian, 271 Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh, technological university founded in 1824 and located in Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Applications received by May the Capital District area of upstate New York. It has an 30, 1994, will receive first consideration. enrollment of 4,200 undergraduates and 2,200 graduate students in 46 academic curricula and is organized into Reference Librarian, Texas A&M five Schools: Engineering, Science, Management, University-Corpus Christi, Texas Architecture, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi seeks a reference Libraries currently have an annual budget of more than librarian to help provide reference service, BI, collection $3M and a staff of 46 FTE, including 12 librarians. development, and onlineICD-ROM searches. Applicant can expect to work one night a week and one weekend Qualifications: The successful candidate should have a month. Position duties will rotate through additional extensive experience with emerging information tech- responsibilities such as ILL, map collection, etc. nologies and automated library systems, a demonstrated Professional librarians at TAMU-CC have academic ability to articulate a clear vision for the future role of status. TAMU-CC will admit freshmen for the first time libraries in the rapidly developing lnformation Age, and a and become a four-year university in the Fall of 1994. demonstrated ability for fund-raising. An AM-accredited Currently it serves over 4,000 students, 34% of whom MLS, at least five years of administrative experience in are Hispanic. an academic or special library, demonstrated professional and scholarly activity, and a commitment to excellence Qualifications: MLS or equivalent from an AM- in scholarship and research are 'required. Strong accredited program. Experience with online database interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated searching, including DIALOG. Experience with and ability to lead and manage change are extremely interest in serving Hispanic population. Academic important. background in Mexican AmericaniHispanic literature preferred. Background in AmericaniEnglish literature and Salary: Salary will be competitive, dependent upon 61 experience desirable. experience and qualifications. page 10 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter March 1994

The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications soon install an automated library system, and a new and nominations March 1st and continue until the building is planned within the next five years. position is filled. Applications should include a full resume and at least five references. A starting date of Qualifications: MLS degree with experience in science July 1st is preferred. Please address communications to and engineering library administration. The candidate William C. Jennings, Dean of Computing & lnformation should also possess: excellent communication and inter- Technology, C114011, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, personal skills; strong service orientation; significant Troy, NY 12150. professional involvement; substantial knowledge of and experience with automated library systems and informa- Library Director, Montana Tech tion technologies; and an understanding of the role of Applications are invited for the position of Library information resources in a graduate technological Director with appointment anticipated in the summer of institution. Academic background in the sciences or 1994. The Library Director reports to the Academic Vice engineering and strong online search skills preferred; President and is responsible for the administration, fund-raising experience desirable. planning, and leadership of the library. This is an academic, tenure-track position. Montana Tech is a unit Appointment will begin July 1st. Send letter of of the Montana University System specializing in science application, resume, and names, addresses, and and minerals engineering and has a rapidly growing telephone numbers of at least three references to: research and graduate program with emphasis in mine Personnel Department, Oregon Graduate Institute, PO waste technology. Tech has a student body of 2,000 Box 91 000, Portland OR 97291-1000. and the library holds over 200,000 volumes. Technical Resources Librarian, Georgia lnstitute Qualifications: The successful candidate must have of Technology, Library and lnformation Center professional qualifications demonstrated in part by Provide reference, information services and analysis to holding an ALA-accredited MLS. Progressively students, faculty, staff, and off-campus clients for responsible experience in library management, technical reports, patents and trademarks, standards and supervision, and a commitment to scholarly excellence specifications, vendor catalogs and other collections of and innovative problem-solving are also necessary. microforms as well as current periodicals. Provide liaison and collection development services in assigned areas. Salary: Salary will depend on experience and qualifications. Qualifications: ALA-accredited MLS, two years reference experience in an academic or special library, A letter of application, resume, and the names of three effective oral and written communication skills, and references should be sent to: Vice President for online searching and microcomputer skills required. A Academic Affairs, Montana Tech, 1300 West Park science or engineering degree and experience with Street, Butte, MT 59701-8997. Further information technical reports, patents, standards and microforms about the position can be obtained from Dr. Henry desirable. McClernan, Chair, Search Committee, (406) 496-41 13. Applicant screening will begin April 4th and will continue Benefits: 21 days of vacation per year; 12 observed until the position is filled. holidays, group health and life insurance plans. TIAAICREF or state retirement plans. Librarians have Library Director, Oregon Graduate lnstitute of faculty status, a non-tenured track. Salary and rank are Science and Technology (OGI) dependent on qualifications and experience. OGI seeks to hire a Director of Library Services. OGI is an independent, private graduate university located in For consideration, send resume with salary history and the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. It specializes in the names and addresses of three references to: Becky the sciences and engineering and offers M.S. and Ph.D. Turner, Personnel Librarian, Library and lnformation degrees. The library is small but highly focused with a Center, Georgia lnstitute of Technology, Atlanta, GA staff of six and a budget of approximately $500,000 30332-0900. Review of applications will begin April 4th including about $300,000 for materials. The library will and continue until position is filled. EL0 Newsletter Editor Science and Engineering Library 2288 Capen Hall State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260